a. [ad. med.L. censīvus subject to taxation, (Du Cange gives censiva terra), f. census assessed, rated, f. censēre.] (See quot.)
1878. G. R. Marriott, trans. Laveleye’s Prim. Property, 227. In the feudal system, there were … military tenure and censive tenure … ‘censive’ tenure was that of the cultivator, who owed his superior payments in kind or in labour.
